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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 2
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and WFHB
- Added: Aug 22, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
This week on the show: The remnants of slavery -
June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...
Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 24:29
- Purchases: 2
David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 14:16
Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
This week on the show: Europe demands answers after US-Danish spying claims. Frustration with the German government's handling of the vaccine prog...
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 58:59
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Legacy of slavery -
We take a closer look at Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, the darkest chapter in t...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 30:00
David Ben Shabat hates being called a prophet. As he sees it, he’s just a guy who stumbled upon a deep truth and wants to share it with the people....
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 59:17
In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 01:13:07
Five generations have lived at the ‘Alexander Haus’ on Groß Glienicker See over the past century – enduring fascism, war, the division of Germany, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA
- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 3
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
An eight-year-long personal investigation into the chain of events that lead to the assassination lead to, of all places, Israel's most popular rap...
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 11:46
A look into the fall of the Denver Post, the impact it's had on the Colorado News Market and the future of reporting in the state.
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 13:16
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
Bought by WWNO
- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 11:59
- Purchases: 2
Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 4
Cali Paetow explores the ongoing fight of the Native American Pueblo tribe as they push to eliminate racism and public defacement of their ancestors.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 07:08
- Purchases: 1
Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.
- Added: Sep 01, 2016
- Length: 09:20
Just a moment of watching the daily activities of our national public life reveals that ‘performance’ is consequential — far beyond the confines of...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 57:27
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
